Leadership development for Executives and Senior Managers

Message from our Programme Directors

"This programme prepares you to inspire those you lead, as you navigate an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment. The insights you gain will stay with you throughout your career.

You will fully appreciate your personal leadership strengths, as you come to understand how crucial this is to understanding why people would want to be led by you.

Underpinning the programme is a distinctive view of leadership, and one that is highly practical. This comes from our research work with leaders in many organisations. Through this programme we are able to translate our research findings and experience into relevant models and lessons. It is these models and lessons which will help you to realise your fully leadership potential." 

Professor Tim Morris

Dr David Pendleton

Leadership as a day-to-day process

Much of the popular leadership literature tends to focus on 'big picture visionary leadership'. Instead of this, we propose that leadership is best seen as a day-to-day process, encompassing both strategic and operational elements.

We develop your leadership talent; we encourage you to think about the leadership task as core to your everyday work.

Leadership networks and influencing

We emphasise that leadership is about building and working with a much wider network of people - colleagues, peers, clients and policy-makers. Over the course of the week you will gain insights into your network and you will learn how this can facilitate, as well as constrain, your effectiveness as a leader.

Leadership and decision-making

We stress the importance of decision-making - a common challenge for all leaders. We focus on how you can make smart decisions within your teams, and more widely, within the context of the organisation.

Leading change

We believe that the challenge of leadership is intimately linked to the requirement to bring about change.

Through this programme you will focus on how you can develop and execute strategies for change and, as a crucial part of the process, how you can influence and persuade others to drive change forward.

A highly realistic view of leadership

All of these components reflect a highly realistic view of leadership. And it is these components, combined with a deep understanding of you as a leader, that are embedded in the design of this programme.

They will help you as a leader, achieve great performance and create organisations with the resilience to prosper in the longer term.